All Hallows Eve

Happy Halloween!

Halloween the best holiday of the year. The only time of the year where the most basic human emotion is celebrated. And, if you didn't get scared this Halloween you did not have a good Halloween.

Halloween is also a holiday that really doesn't change as you grow older. Its the only time of the year an adult can feel like a kid. Where they can let go the rationality of the real world and walk around as a pirate saying, "ARR!"

The last year I went trick or treating I was 23 years old. A group of college buddies and myself dressed up as various intellectual and nerdy things and ran around the town collecting treats for our work. Myself as Caesar's ghost, decked out in a bloody toga with a knife in my back. Another friend running around as the Windows "Blue Screen of Death," the scariest thing he could think of. And a third friend walking around as Lego Man, cardboard box shape and all. We took our little group of 21-23 year old tricksters to Salem Avenue and walked around reenacting the witch scene from Monty Python's Holy Grail. Because, everybody knows Monty Python is part of college curriculum. Imagine our surprise when we Trick or Treated a house and saw a woman, dressed as a witch, come to the door. Lucky for us she had seen the movie too.

But the one question we got asked the most that night was not, "What are you supposed to be?"
Which was always a kids favorite. It was, "Aren't you kids a little old to be Trick or Treating?" We were asked this question so many times that eventually, in unison, we would answer back, "You can be too old to Trick or Treat?" They would usually just smile and laugh.

Really a person never becomes too old to Trick or Treat. They just make a transition from the Trick or Treat-er to the Trick or Treat-ee. Older people enjoy trick or treating just as much giving out candy as the kids do running around an collecting it. It's all a part of the process. It just depends what side of the ritualistic transaction you are on.

In the Beginning

When the idea to start a blog was still fresh in my mind. I was having a hard time deciding what I would do with mine. The one main goal I had in mind was to make people laugh. That is still a goal of this blog while this isn't going to be one of those posts. Me: Awesome ideas, this may actually work. Roommate: yeah Me: Save those to a text file somewhere. Roommate: ok Roommate: done. trillian logs my convos Me: that should be on a shirt. "trillian logs my convos" This was the starting point and a building block for many of the ideas for this site. The original idea was to have a site where people could submit humorous or crazy chat logs. The ones that you go back to and read over and over. I don't know if I am the only person who enjoys this little ritual of periodically going back though all the chat I've had with hundreds of people on the internet, but its always fun to go back and see what you have written. Laugh again at the jokes made and arguments won. This is something I'm sure I will do a year from now with this blog. People do not write journals for others. If so, why would they put locks on them? They write them for themselves. So while a blogs only difference is the fact that people write them with the thought that other people are going to read them we truly do it for ourselves. So take a moment to self reflect and go back though your old writings. Find snippets and share them.

Yet Another Conversation

Welcome to Trillian Logs My Conversations.

A lot of blogs I have read all start with the same post.

"Does the world need another Blog?"

Well I have wrestled with that question for some time before I finally decided that the world does need another one. The whole debate started with me contemplating what I could do to make a good blog. What would make it interesting. I began to think a theme was necessary for a blog. So, I debated on a theme as many of my personal favorites have catchy themes. This is what hatched Trillian Logs My Conversations. It was IM chat that took place with my roommate. The end result leading to the idea of a blog devoted to silly and funny chat conversations. While TLMC was originally based on a theme, in my mind I wanted it to become more.

That is when I realized that a person can be a theme too. That a blog was just a forum to release ones own self expression through writing. Now all I really need was some confidence.

So I ask myself again, "Does the world need another blog?" My answer is yes. Because, there are millions upon millions of unique individuals in the world and they all need a voice. They are what make each blog unique.